Gearing.



l. 1. SMITH.

GEKRING.

APPLICATIQN FILED DEC.8. I9l3- 1 ,140,078. Patented May 18, 1915.

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} GEARING. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 8' I913.

Patented May 18, 1915.

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AR K j speqi fi ii fnea me t. Patented May 18,1915- Application filedDecember 8, 1913.; SeriaLNo. 805,207.

To all whom it mayconcern: a Beit known that I, TAYLOR J. SMITH, a

citizen of the United States, 9 residing at,

Union City, in the county of Campbell and State of Georgia, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Gearing, of which thefollowing is .a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in gearing especially adapted foruse, with churns, the object of the invention being to provide animproved arrangement of'triple dasher shafts with an improved mountingtherefor enabling the mechanism to-be readily placed within and removedfrom a suitable container, and which protects the working parts of thechurn against possibility of contact with the cream, and therebyprevents injurious consequences to the cream as well as to the workingparts.

' A further obj'ectis to provide improve ments of this character inwhich the upper.

ends of the dasher shafts and the gearing imparting motion thereto isconfined within a housing located centrally of a plate, which latter isdesigned to cover a container and permit of ready removal when desired.

With these and other objects in view, the

invention consists in certain novel features of construction andcombinations and arrangements of parts as 'will be more fullyhereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a view in vertical sectionillustrating my improvements. Fig. 2 is a top plan view. Fig. 3 is afragmentary view in section on the line 38 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4: is a viewin horizontal section on the line 41- 1 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a view insection on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of oneof the dashers. I

1 represents a container which may be of any suitable material having ata point below its open upper end, an internal annular flange 2 withnotches 3 formed therein.

1 represents a plate which is of general conical form and of a diameterto fit within the container 1, and rest upon the flange 2 V of thelatter. A depending annular flange 5 is formed on plate 2 at a pointremoved from its outer edge, and this flange 5 projects into thereceptacle within the flange 2, and is provided with lugs 6 which areadapted to be projected through the notches 3,

and when-the; plate. isiturned, securely lock the plate. in thecontainer.

- The plate 4 is providedcentrally with a pocket, 7 'over which aremovable casting 8 is secured by means of screws 9, which latter.extend through the lower end of the caste ing;.8, and arescrewed intothe plate 4:. The casting, 8. and the pocket; 7 together consti-j tute agear housing in which my improved 7 arrangement of gearing is inclosed.

Plate Q in the bottom of housing 7,, is

formed with integralbearings. 10 through which dasher shafts 11 project.The upper ends of these shafts 11,, which are reduced in diameter asshOWn at 12, project into bearings, 13, in enlargements 14 integral withcastingfS, so that the-shafts have two hearing points at their' pp d onein plate 4, and the other the casting 8. I have illustrated, and:preferably employ three dasher shafts which at theirlower reduced endsare supportedto turn in bearings 15 "in a ring 16. This ring is held inposition by nuts 17 onthe lower screwthreaded ends of the shafts 11below the ring as indicated clearly in Fig. 1.

Each shaft 11 is provided with dashers 18 having central sleeves 19secured to the dasher shafts in any desired manner and projecting atboth ends beyond the shaft,

In the center of pocket 7, a short arbor 21 is secured and supports agear 22 which meshes with pinions 23 on each of the dasher shafts 11,and transmits motion to all of the shafts to turn them simultaneously.

An integral beveled pinion 24 is formed on gear 22, and meshes with abeveled driving gear 25 secured on a horizontal shaft 26 projectingbeyond the, casting 8 and having a crank arm 27 thereon to turn thesame.

While my invention is not limited to any particular style of container,it is especially adapted for'use on earthenware jars or similarreceptacles, and the construction of plate- 4 with its lugs 6 isespecially adapted for interlocking in a container of this kind.

It will be noted that when the shaft 26 is turned, gear 25 will impartmotion to pinion tion,

24: and gear 22 to drive all of the da'sher shafts 11 through the mediumof the pinions 23, and cause the dashers to move rapidly through thecream and quickly churn the same into butter.

The shafts, as above stated, have two bearings at their upper ends, onein the plate 4, and the other in the casting 8 with the pinions 23secured on these shafts between these two bearing points, so that thepinions are firmly held in mesh with the center gear 22 and a strongproperly meshing gearing is had. Furthermore, all of the operating partsare safely housed within the housing formed by casting 8 and pocket 7 sothat none of the cream can get into the gearing and no grease or dirtfrom the gearing can find its way into the cream. The device istherefore a perfectly sanitary one, and all of the operating parts arein a strong assemblage which may be readily placed in a container andthoroughly cleansed after the churning operation.

Various slight changes might be made in E the general form andarrangement of parts described without departing from my invenand henceI do not limit myself to the precise details set forth, but considermyself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fallwithin the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

A housing comprising a plate provided with a pocket in its upper face,and a superimposed member detachably secured thereto, an arborprojecting upwardly from the bottom of said pocket, a gear wheelrotatably mounted on said arbor and arranged within said pocket, saidgear wheel being provided with an integral beveled pinion, a transverseshaft in said superimposed member, a beveled gear fixed to said shaftand meshing with said beveled pinion, alined bearings in said plate andsuper-imposed member respectively, a shaft mounted in said bearings, anda pinion on said shaft within said pocket and meshing with the firstsaid gear, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

TAYLOR J. SMITH.

Witnesses W. M. Roenns, OARLos L. JEANEs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

